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Establishment of a reference database of contaminants
EDIT: I don’t think many people have added to the contaminant database. Moreover, for this database to be useful, everyone would need to ensure that their blanks were not egregiously contaminated before adding putative contaminants to the database…Therefore, I suspect most of us should take the simpler approach and simply look at what occurs in blanks and remove any OTUs that are of much higher relative abundance in the blanks compared to the biological samples (as described above).
I have copied the OTUs from the ‘control’ project in library 1B (psomagen_26may20) into these two files:
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